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f ,-, we- -- " " "' V NO APPOINTMENT? Rep. Barratt O'Hara (D., HI.) ,vows that he will fight for the appointment of 14-year-Dld Jimmy Johnson (right) as a congressional page boy Tregardless of the consequences." Jimmy came to Wash ington from Chicago under the impression that he had been selected to serve as a page boy in the House of Representatives, but on arrival he was told that the job he wanted "was not available." There has been sug- festion that the mix-up is connected with the fact that immy is a Negro. "j I a I 1 1 1111 1 4 tor V ' WJ Quotes From the News By1 United Press International Durango, Mexico - Actor Mel Ferrer, lamenting the rest lessness of his wife, film star Audrey Hepburn, who is im mobilized by a spine injury received when a horse threw her while on location here for a film: "I don't know what to do io keep her quiet. She told roe 'I am going to ride that horse again before the picture is finished."- Washington - Twenty-two prominent Americans, includ ing Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, in a statement urging a ban on atomic tests even if there is a risk of cheating by the parti cipants: "There are elements of risk in any agreement, but the risks of continuing the arms race indefinitely are even greater." Miami, Fla. President Arturo Frondizi of Argentina, on his desire to end Argentina's traditional neutralism in favor of greater cooperation with the United States: "We are now embarked on an irreversible course linking our destiny with the Untied States and with the rest of the republics of the Western Hemisphere." ' Suffield, Conn. - Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn Jr., denying that he will resign the post: "I have no plans to resign, although anyone who has served in this job for one term has served just about as long as he would want to. At the moment I'm trying to get the party back in business." Dpnvpr Colo Arflai V.. Stevenson, on the need for a re- I appraisal of the current armed services draft program: "The draft may be giving us quantity with the illusion of protection, rather than quality with the reality of se curity." ' Norfolk, Va. - A group of top Norfolk high school stu dents, calling for a peaceful start of integration in Virginia schools: "We believe that, regardless of their personal feelings, the students of our respective schools will conduct themselves with a dignity that will bring credit to our city." Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins The Family uncil Editor's note: The F-naiI council consists ot a judge a psychiatrist, tc wcisjiucii, a ucwajjdiiei cunur 9 wuraeo s eaiior ana two writers. Each article is a summary nf an actual report. The Family Council does not give advice: it merely reports on problems that have been dealt with by responsible agencies and counselors. 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Pop Out Of Ground They pop up out of the ground. A day later they have shriveled and collapsed into a mass of rotting vegetation and their brief life is ended. But clustered around this dying one, on the damp, mouldy ground in ugly little bumps, other "eggs" are opening. Oth er soft, clammy globes are swelling in the warm, damp air. The race of puff-balls is rushing on in a mad desire to grow, to die, and to liberate millions of brown spores that will continue the parade of fungi. Puff balls used to be held in high esteem. They were once supposed to possess a strong medicinal quality.. The dry brown powder, with which ripe puff-balls are com pletely filled, was believed to be one of the very best reme dies known" for nose bleed or hemorrhage. Just, a pinch of the powder snuffed up the nose was thought to bring in stant relief and total stoppage of the bleeding. The early Americas pio neers searched the woods aft er heavy summer showers. If there had been thunder and lightning, it was thought to be even better. Then the huge globes grew on decayed vege tation. Very carefully the big ball was lifted and carried Boy Seoul: Cub Scout Pack 4 Cub Scout Pack 4 held their monthly pack meeting at the West Side school Wednesday evening with ap proximately 120 in atten dance. Den 3 conducted the flag ceremony, followed by singing. The following new clubs were inducted: Roger Jones, Michael Herrin, Alan Harns berger, Craig Bryant, Max Higginbotham, Dennis Phil lips, Thomas Titus, Ronald Gustafson and Terry Hught. Steve Shinn was graduated into Troop 8 in a ceremony conducted by Chuck Shinn and Elwood Hedberg, scout master. Awards were presented by committee chairman Jerry Kessee to the following boys: Rickey Gravelle, 1 year pin; Gregory Collins, Wolf badge, gold arrow and 3 silver arrows; Henry Keesee, gold arrow and 3 silver arrows; Ronnie Hamilton, year pin; Bobby Clark, year pin; Doug las Rowden, assistant denner badge; Ralph Fugit, assistant denner badge; Douglas Black, denner and lion badges; David Rott, bear badge; David Walker, wolf badge; Glen Beeman, assistant d e n n er badge; Steve Shinn, denner, lion and webelo badges; year pin and gold arrow; David Cubertson, assistant denner badge and year pin; Bob Kagy, year pin; Don Turner, year pin; Ralph Brindley, year pin; and Gary Ray, year pin. Bob Church, council mem ber, presented the pack char ter to Mrs. George Bryant of the Oak Grove PTA, and this was given to Mr. Keesee, com mittee chairman. Also in troduced was Robert Phil lips, institutional representa tive. Den 3 won the attendance doll and also the achievement banner. New Den Mothers intro duced were Mrs. Herrin, Den 6: Mrs. Brindley and Mrs. Turner, Den 3. A cookie sale was an nounced by Mr. Howell and tickets distributed to the den mothers. The monthly com mittee meeting will be held Feb. 5 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Howell, 957 Ca sino rd., and plans will be made for the annual Blue and Gold banquet to be held Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Oak Grove school. Mrs. Sanberg announced a meeting of the den mothers to. be held Wednesday at her home to make final plans for the window display. home. If the family liked mushrooms or toadstools, the puff-ball was often sliced, soaked for a few hours in salt water 'and fried, much the same as the egg plant is fried today. Dry and Stiff Left in a shady place to ripen and taking only a few hours, the outer skin became stiff and dry, almost like heavy brown paper. Inside, the pulp turned to a brown powder which was carefully shaken out into a jar, and tightly sealed. Then the pio neer housewife had on hand a ready remedy in case of bleeding. Deep cuts in human skin were generously sprink led with the brown powder, and bleeding stopped. The puff-ball, like its cou sins the mushrooms, grows wherever the earth is very rich in organic matter. The rotted wood in a damp' forest floor is permeated by fila ments, or fungi threads, that are a dirty white color, and very branching. They gather nourishment from the plant. The puff-ball is made up of these filaments, which form windings canals, upon whose walls grow the spores. The brown dust that escapes when a ripe puff-ball is punctured, or opened, are the spores themselves. They come out in what looks like a cloud of brown dust. Given a comfortable lodg ing place, each one of these tiny spores can grow into an other puff-ball. However, na ture -must have had some thing else in mind other than puff-balls when she created this fungus for only a mil lionth of the spores ever have a chance to grow. So why do they have to be in such an all-fired hurry to develop? Ac tually, old age and senility in a puff-ball are only a matte- of 24 hours. (Re-leased by The Register aai Tribune Syndicate, 1S&9) Digital Comp Characteristics Sydney, Australia, (Science Service) An automatic di gital computer is behaving like a fruit fly at least as imitating the selection be tween two different genetic characteristics. Scientists here have suc ceeded in using an electronic "brain" to show what hap pens when two different groups of fruit flies mate. The results show how emergence of inherited characteristics, transmitted by genes, can be predicted. This can mean that math ematics will speed up some biological experiments in the future. It may be that com puters can be substituted in inhertance experiments for some living plants and ani mals. Thus many long and expensive experiments might be compressed into a few hours of electronic compu tations. The program here simulates selection between two alleles at a sex-linked spot on chro mosomes in fruit flies. (All eles are contrasting pairs of characteristics or genes such as tallness and shortness.) Competition Studies Using two fictitious, or sim ulated populations of the in sects, Dr. J. S: F. Barker of the University of Sydney's de partment of animal husban dry reported obtaining re sults similar to those in ac tual experimental studies. He studied competition between the characteristic "yellow" and its "wild type" allele. Computers are expected to be especialy useful in invest igating the effects of various matings in insect populations - such as how many gener ations will elapse before a given characteristic dies out. The computer program is be ing used in further studies of selection between two al leles at a sex-linked locus, the scientist said. The research is being pub lished by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Re search Organization. The Red Cross has issued 16 million first aid certificates. Phone SP 3-4293 DAILY'S U-DRIVE Medford Airport Cheryl D. My husband and I are in our late 60s and in good health. My husband's firm retired him a year ago and we have been having some problems ever since. Joe has always enjoyed his hobbies in his spare time, but since he has retired he seems . to get bored with them. He hangs around the bouse all day and gets in my way, telling me what to do and not to do. Even when we visit the children he be comes restless and irritable. My brother has a small business and is willing to let my husband help out. The pay wouldn't be much, but at least it would get him out a few hours a day. I think this is the solution to his problem, but he refuses to take the job. Joe D. I don't need hand outs from anyone. ' Between my social Security and re tirement pension plus a little extra from investments we can get along. Cheryl's broth er told me I really couldn't be of much use to him, but he is willing to take me in as a favor to her. I'm not a kid and I don't want to be sent off to kindergarten. When I worked I was in an executive position and I can handle plenty of respon sibility. Cheryl's brother thinks I'm fit only .for odd jobs: He wouldn't give me a chance to do anything else, even though I have ideas that could improve his business. I had always looked for ward to giving more time to my hobbies, but I must admit they haven't held my inter est. The Council: Right now Joe seems to be suffering from a severe case of self pity brought on by poor prep aration for his retirement. Joe apparently leaned too heavily on hobbies that had never become very important to him. As a relaxation from work they may have been satisfaying, but a full-time activity they sem trivial. If he had given a little more thought to the matter, Joe might have realized that a hobby may feel like kinder garten work unless it becomes so fascinating and significant that it takes over the person, makes demands on him, sets him challenges which call for his best eforts. Joe, like many men in a similar position, could not imagine what it would be like to have all his responsibilities taken from him, to have no body and nothing really need ing his attention. It is a difficult situation to face, but falling into the depths of self-pity will only make things worse. People tend to see us as we see our selves and Joe's feeling that he is useless and discarded is reflected all around him. Even his wife, in her sincere effort to be helpful, hurts him with her pity and the consolation prize she has man aged to grab for him. Joe's big effort must be to change his outlook on his total situation. He should not let himself be crushed by his brother-in-law's grudging of fer of "odd jobs." He should accept the offer only if he is willing to put himself into whatever is required of him to make the most of it. If his ideas for the business are good ones, the brother-in-law probably will recognize it eventually and Joe may find himself on the threshhold of a new career. If the brother-in-law bit doesn't work out, Joe should pick himself up and look for another opportunity, never losing his belief that what ever work he can do is val uable to someone. (Copyright 1959. General Features Corp.) Social Security Checks Increased Washington -(UPD- The gov ernment begins mailing fat ter checks today to more than-12V million Social Se curity beneficiaries. Social Security Commis sioner William L. Mitchell said the benefit checks will be about 7 per cent higher. They will go to old age, sur vivors, and disability insur ance beneficiaries. As a result, the January payments will fun about $50 million higher than in the previous month when they totaled about S690 million. . The hikes were authorized by the last Congress. Hereto fore, monthly payments to a retired worker, aged 65, ranged from $30 to $108.50. The January checks range from 33 to $116. The maxi mum monthly payment to a family formerly $200, now is S254. Reddy Kilowatt Says: Icy Spots Reported On Oregon Highways Salem -OJPD- Cooler weather brought icy spots to several Oregon routes today. There was packed snow at Meacham and Austin. Icy spots were rerjorterl at Timberline, Government Camp, Warm Springs, Wilson River summit. Sunset Summit. Cascade Locks, Siskiyou sum mit, Green Springs, Santiam Pass, Sisters, Willamette pass, Bly, Lakeview and Basque. REDUCES ALIMONY Memphis, Tenn. - (DPD Mrs. Jane Mitcham Lewis. 22. ex-wife of rock 'n roll singer Jerry Lee Lewis, retained custody of the couple's two boys today but on a reduced income. A iudee ruled Satur day that Mrs. Lewis was en titled to keep the children, but allowed the singer to re duce monthly alimony pay ments from $750 to $400. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, February 2, 1959 7 IS THE CHAIR THERE? Des Moines, Iowa -UPfl-Four Iowa lawmakers who are rent ing a house from Rep. Howard Reppert of Des Moines intro duced a bill to prohibit a leg islator from evicting other legislators until the session is over. When Reppert objected, Rep. Vera Lisle replied "we just wanted to see if you lis ten to each of the bills read up here." MOST FASCINATING LEGS Didcot Ensland -(OPD-Lance Cpl. William Nimmo entered a "fascinatine lees . contest" here this weekend and won. There was nothine to sav men couldn't enter." Nimmo I said. T won fair and square." Nimmo; 21, .was declared the winner by , the result of an applause meter and was awarded an electric heater. About 96 per cent of Egypt is uninhabitable desert." LIQUOR RATE CUT Salem - (UPD - Purchasers of more than 60 bottles of liquor would be granted a 10 per cent discount from the state under terms of a bill in troduced in the Oregon House. 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